Temperature & Humidity Monitoring for Poultry Farms using IOT

Malaysian society consumes 49.30 kg of chicken and 370 eggs as a source of protein each year and in 2020. Malaysia has over 3000 poultry farms across the country. Nowadays, poultry farms have modernized tools using Internet-of-Things to ease accessibility. Internet-of-things supports poultry farmers to preserve the chicken cage environment. High environmental temperatures destructively influence the health of chickens; unstable humidity levels affect the chicken quality and weight in the cage. Improper collection and analysis of cage environmental data delays the appropriate action to be taken. Therefore, designing a web-based application is essential to assist farmers and engineers in managing the chicken poultry farms to collect and analyze the data necessary to monitor the chicken health and quality. In this paper, a mechanism has been developed to monitor the temperature and humidity in the poultry cage. DHT22 sensors were used to measure the temperature and humidity levels of the cage. The readings from the sensors were processed by the microcontroller and automatically and subsequently sent to a central database, where the user can monitor and update the farm's status. Based on the temperature and humidity values received from the sensors, appropriate action will be taken by the system to turn on the lamp and the fan to stabilize the chicken's cage. Once the temperature and humidity cross a threshold, a notification will be sent to alert the situation of the cage to the farmer.